Our hearts go out to the thousands of our fellow citizens who were murdered
by cowards with souls so dark and shriveled it is difficult to comprehend.
Our deepest sympathies go out to hundreds of thousands who have lost loved
ones and friends; we are literally crying along with you. We can only hope
that our leaders have the courage to retaliate with a vengeance so powerful
and terrible that our enemies will quiver at the thought anyone attacking
us again.

In the months to come we will face many difficult decisions. One of them
will be the question of rebuilding the World Trade Center. Many will argue
that it is an invitation to further acts of terrorism, and we should simply
erect a monument to the innocents and heroes who died in the rubble. But what
would be a more fitting monument than to rebuild something even grander in
its place? I respectfully suggest that we rebuild not just replacement towers,
but something twice the size, four towers, no, make it five towers, the likes
of which the world has never seen. And the tallest one, the one dedicated
to everyone who has died in the attack and who will die in the retaliation,
will send an unmistakable message to our enemies.